The three-day meet of general secretaries (organisations) also discussed the role of pracharaks in the BJP and to firm up the road map for the 2019 elections.

According to senior RSS leaders, this is only the start of several BJP-RSS coordination meetings that will take place this year.

Top leaders of the RSS and BJP, who are holding a conclave from June 14-18 in Surajkund in Haryana, have asked the RSS Sangathan Mantris in the BJP to review the performance of all BJP Lok Sabha MPs and submit a report. These reports will determine whether the party will give the MPs tickets in the 2019 polls.

The Sangathan Mantris have been tasked to find out how each BJP MP’s work in the constituency has been, whether he has the support and is still popular among the people, whether he has managed to take the BJP cadre along and, more importantly, what the chances of him getting elected again are.

Three BJP leaders confirmed, on condition of anonymity, that such instruction has been passed on by BJP leaders to the Sangathan Mantris after the conclave ended. “How many current BJP MPs will be fielded again will largely depend on this survey. If you have delivered as an MP in your constituency, then you don’t have to worry. However, if public perception is not in your favour, then however high profile you might be, you are likely to be dropped,” a BJP leader said.

According to him, if the survey finds that a particular MP may not win the elections if he is given a party ticket then they have been asked to suggest other candidate names who can win the election. The Sanghatan Mantris have been asked to submit the report within the next 30 days.

The three-day meet of general secretaries (organisations) also discussed the role of pracharaks in the BJP and to firm up the road map for the 2019 elections.

“RSS doesn’t get into party affairs, but this meeting was about strengthening the organisation,” said a senior RSS leader. On Friday evening, the PM hosted a dinner for the pracharaks where it is learnt that he too was briefed about the discussions that took place at the meeting.

The state of the party in Uttar Pradesh was another focal point. The sangh is divided into six prants in the state, and according to senior leaders, the heads of each prant will be suitably briefed on how to counter the combined effort of the BSP and SP and increase its activity in districts where the opposition has a chance to win. After the meeting, on Saturday, three of the five Sangathan Mantris of UP were relieved of their responsibilities. Two of them were BJP full-timers who have now been replaced by RSS pracharaks.

Another important issue discussed was how to improve the chances of the party where it lost by a few votes in the last assembly elections and identify performers among other parties who have been making it difficult for the party to win. “The message to us from both the PM and party president is that each of us has to work with others to face the challenge in the interests of the country,” another leader said. According to senior RSS leaders, this is only the start of several BJP-RSS coordination meetings that will take place this year. “The sarsanghchalak will also meet the PM and BJP chief for the final touches,” he added.